Railway cattle-gate



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Patented Aug. 17, 1897.

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RAILWAY CATTLE-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 588,303, dated August17, 1897.

Application filed April 24, 1897. Serial No. 633 ,738- (No model.)

which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to improvements in automatic cattle-gates; and theobject is to provide a simple, reliable, and effective device of thisclass.

To this end the invention consists in the construction, combination, andarrangement of the device, as will be hereinafter more fully described,and particularly pointed out in the claim.

-In the accompanying drawings the same reference-characters indicate thesame parts bodying our invention.

of the invention.

Figure 1 is-a top plan View of a gate em- Fig. 2 is a longitudinalsection of the same'on the line of one of the railroad-rails. Fig. 3 isa similar view taken on a line between the rails and with the gateelevated or closed. Fig. 418 a transverse section.

1 and 2 represent the railroad-rails, and 3 3 represent bearing-blocksclamped to the bottom flanges of the rails to secure thecylindricaljournals'et i of the transverse shaft 5. These bearing-blocks3 consist of a plate 6 and a cap 7, through which the claw-bolts 8 8pass to secure the bearing to the rail.

9 9 represent set-screws passing through the cap 7 to adjust the cap forwear.

The shaft5 is cam-shaped in cross-section, as shown, and the chains 1010 pass over the cam-shaped face and are fastened to the bolts 11 11,while the opposite ends of said chains extend under and are secured tothe contiguous free ends of the platforms 12 12, the rear ends of whichare provided with a cross-brace 13, through which a common shaft 14:passes, and this shaft is mounted in the usual bearing-boxes 15 15.

will depress the platforms 12, and thereby throw the gate-panels into anapproximately vertical position and form a barrier to their travelingalong the line of the track. After an animal has left the platform theweight restores the gate-panels to their horizontal position.

Although we have specifically described the construction and relativearrangement of the several elements of our invention, we do not desireto be confined to the same, as such changes or modifications may be madeas clearly fall within the scope of our invention without departing fromthe spirit thereof.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new anduseful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

An automatic cattle-gate for railways, comprising the bearing-blocks 33, adjustably secured to the bottom flanges of the rails, the cam-facedshaft 5, provided with theoylindrical journals 4 4 mounted in saidblocks, the gate-panels 20 and the radial arm 16 fixed to said shaft,and the weight 17 secured to said arm by the chain 19, in combinationwith the platforms 12 pivoted at one end to the fixed shaft 14, and thechains 10 connecting said shaft 5 and the free ends of said platforms,substantially as shown and described. In testimony whereof we hereuntoaffix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH M. WESTMORELAND. BENJAMIN STRANGE. Witnesses: A. R. BENNIcK,

J AS. G. W'ILLIAMS.

